| Colombia Drug Trafficking in
Oklahoma GEO Jail Is Denied Compassionate
Release in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 15– Gabriel Aguirre Cuero
was found on a boat of the
coast of Colombia with 350
kilograms of cocaine in 2017.
He was sentenced for 144
months in US prison.
On
September 15 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge P.
Kevin Castel held a
compassionate release hearing.
Inner City Press covered it.
Cuero's Federal Defender
argued that the prison in
Oklahoma where Cuero is
serving time -- Great Plains
Correctional Institution which
is run by GEO, a company which
runs prisons for cooperators
-- had been more of a hotbed
for COVID-19 than Colombia is.
Judge
Castel found that things have
improved in Oklahoma, and
noted the Cuero has served
less than 40% of the sentence
he previously imposed, which
he called lenient.
Compassionate release was
denied.
The case is US v.
Cuero, 15-cr-125 (Castel)
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